02 Jul 1916
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1916
Page
1
The bill introduces a tariff schedule aimed at building a U S chemical and dyestuff industry and a nonpartisan Rainey tariff commission. It doubles income tax and adds an inheritance tax, a tax on munitions output, and a bond-based funding plan for Mexican-related expenditures.
In Ashtabula Ohio on July 1 a 30 year old man named Michael Kelly was arrested on charges of deserting Company E Fifth Regiment Ohio National Guard. A woman reported seeing Kelly discard his uniform in a lumber yard and police found him in civilian clothes.
Nearly two hundred thousand Boy Scouts of America are ready to volunteer for civic duties in U S communities if war with Mexico occurs. They will not engage in combat but may assist Red Cross and provide special police support in emergencies, with mobilization plans for towns with three or more troops.
El Paso Texas July 1 mobilization of the national guards was near completion with trains from Massachusetts Pennsylvania and New Jersey arriving to bolster border patrols. Armored motor trucks tested by officers at Ft. Bliss fired across parade grounds as part of war exercises while Mexican officials prepared to assist in repatriating U S soldiers killed at Carrizal.
Fair conditions projected for Sunday and Monday across Ohio and Indiana. Kentucky and Tennessee see partly cloudy skies, West Virginia fair with showers in the far east, then clearing. Low pressure prevails across much of the country with a disturbance over Northern Utah and Southeast Idaho, widespread rains in the West and South thunderstorms in East Texas. Temperatures rise in the north and central valleys. overall warm for July with slight regional changes. Cincinnati records July 1 1916 end 7 p.m. for temperature compared with prior years.
New York reports a health department bulletin announcing a tetanus treatment using direct spinal injections of tetanus antitoxin after animal studies. The agency notes a decline in Fourth of July lockjaw deaths from 21 in 1899 to 3 last year due to safer celebrations and prompt antitoxin use.
Mrs Russell Sage of New York gives 100000 to Lawrence College in Appleton Wisconsin to build a girls dormitory in memory of her late husband President Samuel Plantz. The gift is described as the largest ever received by the college.
British forces broke German trenches along a seven mile front in northern Somme sector capturing Mon tauban and Mametz and taking about two thousand prisoners. French co operate to the south as German lines hold Thiaumont in Verdun while Berlin reports French assaults repulsed on the Meuse.
German forces report repelling French assault on Thiaumont work with severe losses and capturing attackers who breached lines. Patrols north of Parroy Wood and west of Menones also successful. Lieutenant Wintgens awarded for downing a French biplane west of Chateau Salins. Civilian casualties rise in Lille and surrounding towns as air and ground actions continue. German advances in Volhynia press Russian positions near Kovel.
July 1 reports from Waukegan Illinois detail how three white spots on Marion Lam bert coat allegedly traceable to potassium cyanide fuel prosecution claims in William H Orpet murder case. Jurors noted spots seen later, defense seeks coat secrecy, Dorothy Mason ties Orpet to Celestia Youker. investigator H G Carlin confronts State.
United States officials instructed Ambassador Page to inform the British Foreign Office unofficially of interest in Sir Roger Casement’s fate. Page will not make recommendations and is not authorized to urge action. the démarche is unofficial and no duties for Britain are implied.
Mrs. William Hamilton wife of an American sugar company employee at Los Mochis Sinaloa was taken from a train at Lomos by Major Pelon a Mexican officer. United States Consul Simpich of Nogales demanded her release and Jose Estrada crossed the line to take the matter to General Novagaray. Hamilton traveled on a passport as Mexican soldiers reported riots at Magdalena and Hermosillo.
Be 3 ATLANTIC CITY N J July 1 Special A high waistline with considerable flare below will distinguish men's sacksuits in the spring and summer of 1917 according to the National Association of Clothing Designers meeting in Atlantic City Designers also consider omitting cuffs on trousers A secret session set lines for next fall's trade.
Telegrams report adhesion to the Carranza government flooding in from across Mexico with contingents from 200 to 2000 men each. Mass meetings and speeches against invasion unfold in Tuxtepec and major cities including Puebla Queretaro Guadalajara Hidalgo Morelia as women led by Hermila Galindo back a peace effort with New York activists.
A Dayton interurban car crashed into a city car at Bayard and Ludlow streets injuring about a dozen people, five seriously. Among the injured are Leo Gottschall 11 Theodore McGennty 77 Edward Farrell 24 Charles Ohmer 60 and Charles Brittan 48. Motorman A Smith was lightly cut. air brake reportedly failed.
Mexican forces push northward under orders attributed to Treviño as tensions rise. Officials confirm deployment details and potential actions along border regions and nearby stations. Local authorities monitor movements for security and compliance with directives.
Reports say Canuto Reyes bands joined Carranza at Torreon and massed troops around Pershing’s forces as Congress debates a huge military appropriation. Secretary Lansing warns Americans should leave Mexico as Secretary Baker reports mobilization plans for 100000 troops.
Mary Miller, daughter of a Plattsburg family and student at the Mississippi A and M College, dies in Dr. F E Lee’s office. Dr. Lee and Dr. Broomfield, along with Mary’s sweetheart J A Graham, are arrested. Police say the physicians admitted performing an operation. Lee was captured after a gun battle, and Graham twice attempted suicide.
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